Bought this 93 with most of it already built -I bought this as I do Search and Rescue in El Dorado County with the OHV group. I needed a capable vehicle that can carry me, 150lbs of gear and rescue 1-3 people from wherever. Our territory includes Rubicon trail, Barret Jeep Trail, Strawberry trail and many more beautiful challenging trails

In the build thread I have a couple of pictures. basically tucked it up against the sides. It needs a couple more bars to make some x's. Also need to build in a rear shelf. My work is slowing up a little so bit have more time to work on it.

Built a roof rack today using a bed frame and two ATV hitch luggage carriers. Came out pretty good.

Also removed my stock radiator overflow tank and replaced it with a smaller one. Put it next to the air box.
The stock tank did not fit right after the big shocks were moved up into the engine department
Have to resize pictures as they are to big to post from phone

bertha - wifes name for jeep- worked great. big ol marshmallow going over rocks. My steering stabilizer fell victim to a wayward rock on the way in. bent it into a curve. plus it loosened my steering at the same time.

You dont think a zj is wide until you do Barret lake Jeep trail with a roof rack on.

Actually end up coming back out instead of staying overnight. One of the guys in my party broke both ball joints and drivers side drive shaft. It happened right in Rock Garden so he was blocking the trail. some of our party went ahead to the lake. Luckily the finance of one of our party had the ball joints and we got another person raised on the Ham radio to stop by the broken partys house and then run the parts up to us. So jim broke at 2pm and we got him fixed by 9pm.

at that point we were still 3 miles from the lake and the other guys who went into the lake said the trail just got rougher. So choice was camp for the night were we at, drive in during the dark or turn around and go home .

with jim running a suspect used drive shaft, our other person having engine issues and not being able to idle down and me just being beat up. Plus I was only planning on doing a two day trip not three day. So I would be doing a one day trip into the lake and back in one day. so we decided to go back out.

It was a long run out - much tougher to do the trail in the dark when you really tired and dont have enough lights.

At one point I misjudged a tight fit between trees and took a tree root to my front tire. bending the rim and flattening the tire.
in the end I just put my spare tire on.

Next time I will just camp out instead of doing a night run.

need to go through rear of vechile as something is clanking .

only picture that I took during the trip as I was too busy driving .

What the jeep looked like this morning. notice spare tire and the bent center link

Unpacked the harbor freight tire changer that I had bought a while back and popped the bead off. Cleaned off the bead as it had lots of dirt in it. Bent the rim back also. Put it all back on and checked bead no leaks yeah.

Decided to Mount my spare tire that I bought a while back on a spare rim I had. So now have the correct size spare.

Just need to mount the rear bumper with the tire mount. Might just put spare on roof rack for moment. Will add pictures in a moment

figured out rattle - the roof rack clamps came loose and were giving just enough play to bounce on bumps.

Started mocking up rear shelf in back. Going to use some angle iron from a bed frame. I really want to reorganize the rear to make it easier to grab things. When I had to change the tire I had to dig everything out to get the tire out. Then when I went to repack everything ended up in a pile. Hence the picture of the jeep with everything spewed out of it

Ok built the rear luggage rack inside rear of vehicle
Used angle iron from a bed frame that I had laying around. Then muffler clamps to clamp it to the roll at. Didn't weld it in as I want to see if I want to keep it.
Used my new mig welder to weld it together. Welds are crap as I didn't clean up the metal enough.
Now I have the rear tire on the platform and it just fits between rear seat and hatch window.

Will tide me over until I can rebuild the rear bumper and tire carrier

ran back up to leek springs look up with my wife and son. didnt even air down this time. just ran it -
jeep is so much quieter on road with exhaust fixed. I was a little worried after banging on front suspension and spinning front tires inside rim.
rear rack did ok- need to get the rear spare tire tied down more. couple good bumps got the tire to go up and down. hard.

tightened the roof rack down and it did not rattle that bad. think it is really the rear right shock that is causing the issue.

That shelf you were talking about came out pretty slick Shawn. I'm a big fan of being able to separate storage areas, I like to keep my spares/tools/greasy stuff completely separate from all of my camping gear. I'm sure it's the same with you and the equipment you bring.

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